Shaad D’Souza
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 6
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 22, 2026
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Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore (opens the original)
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Taylor Swift will always have one of the greatest songwriting catalogs of all time. Nobody can take that away from her. But I listen to the first verse on “Patient Zero,” part of a four-song repack of last year’s The Life of a Showgirl called The Encore, and think, earnestly, openly: What the fuck? It is hard to draw a line between this dog’s breakfast of a song, about commiserating with the ex of an ex about his toxic patterns of behavior, and a track like, say, “Dear John,” which was released
Curbside Lambsear: Put Rings on All My Fingers to Weigh Down My Hands EP (opens the original)
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Curbside Lambsear means nothing. As a band name, it’s drawn from a photo Magdalena McLean posted on Instagram a few years ago—of a lamb’s-ear plant that was growing next to a curb—and does not really necessitate interrogation. But wow, what a phrase to say out loud! There’s no band I’d rather speak the name of right now: Those consonant clusters give the tongue a real workout, bring back Proustian memories of spelling bees and schoolyard riddles. When I say Curbside Lambsear are wordy, I don’t m
Wild Pink: Still Coming Down (opens the original)
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A few things are always basically top of mind for me, among them: The Madeleine McCann mystery; what caused the rift between Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss; the fact that maggots are living under my floorboards; and one specific phrase from Wild Pink’s 2024 album Dulling the Horns. On “Eating the Egg Whole,” John Ross and co. are going full krauty heartland rock, as they are wont to do, and then, right there in the second verse, he just starts riffing about 2003 in America: “The freedom fries wer
Worldpeace DMT: Flowers Powers (opens the original)
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So much has happened since we last spoke: Worldpeace DMT, previously the solo project of London’s Leo Fincham, is now a duo with Rowan Miles, Fincham’s collaborative partner on last year’s The Velvet Underground and Rowan. Miles’ other band, the Femcels, released a great debut album, I Have to Get Hotter; I saw them “perform,” aka dance around to a playback of the album, at Vespers—the nightclub, not the new Jackson Boxer restaurant—earlier this year, after a set by an Amy Winehouse impersonator
The Life of the Party: A Week on Tour With Charli xcx (opens the original)
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Daniela Parada, Charli xcx’s personal assistant, leads me through a set of double doors into a cavernous warehouse space. The first thing I see is a hulking black edifice—a mass of black cages formed into a giant pyramid, topped with a gigantic woofer. She leads me over piles of tangled black cables and into the structure itself, a rabbit warren of quick-change rooms and production desks, until we finally get to the second-highest layer, below the woofer, which requires a small lift to access. I
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